I commend Choudrant High School for their mock crash they put on for the benefit of their fellow classmates and everyone in attendance. It was a startling representation of what can happen when students drink and drive.

I also want to commend Dr. Tommy Grafton, head of Partners in Prevention, for putting on these mock crashes and also setting up those silhouettes along I-20 which show deaths resulting from drinking and wrecking families.

I commend Mayor Dan Hollingsworth for his leadership and foresight and Christian convictions. But I don’t commend him for his weak compliance with alcohol consumption.

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